U.S. Marshals arrest man accused of fatally stabbing boy walking home from school in north Houston

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The U.S. Marshals have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old boy. Josue Flores was killed as he was walking home from school in north Houston Tuesday afternoon.

UPDATE: Charges against Che Calhoun were dropped on Friday, May 20

U.S. Marshals took 31-year-old Che Calhoun into custody Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Selinsky and MLK Boulevard. Calhoun, who's now charged with murder, is undergoing a mental evaluation and will be questioned by Houston police investigators.

"I feel a little relief that he's not out there with the chance to hurt anybody else, but it still doesn't take away the pain of my little brother being gone," Flores' sister, Guadalupe Flores, said shortly after the arrest.

According to investigators, Josue was walking home from school alone Tuesday afternoon when he was repeatedly stabbed by a man in the 1900 block of Fulton Street. Josue died at a local hospital.

Carlos, a local homeless man, alleges he saw Calhoun stab Josue. He told abc13's Jeff Ehling, "The black man grabbed a hold of the kid and did something to him and threw him down on the ground. I saw him laying against the tree, but then I saw blood come up. I looked at him directly in the eye when I saw him."

Guadalupe Flores said she's trying not to be angry at Calhoun.

"I wanted to at first, but my little brother wasn't about that," Flores said, "He was about caring and loving and sharing, and I know if he were here, he wouldn't have held anything against him."